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The Silly Season Is Early This Year
In my prehistoric newspaper days, the “silly season†was late summer when the real world was on vacation, and editors filled space with offbeat stuff that would otherwise never qualify as news.
This week’s Washington Post has one that would be a classic in any era–about a D.C. judge who is suing his neighborhood dry cleaner for $65 million over a pair of disputed pants. The courtroom scene, which is pure Marx Brothers, recalls Groucho’s reminiscences about his father, a tailor who didn’t believe in taking measurements and therefore had to go into hiding from all his old customers.
If the D.C. judge had run across him, he would asking for a $1 billion in damages.
Cross posted from my blog
2 Responses to “The Silly Season Is Early This Year”
It would not be so funny if anyone in the media would notice that the plantiff is black in a very black city and the defendent is Korean. One of the underlying themes of the lawsuit is the very difficult relationship that the black community has with Asian owned/operated businesss.
Just like the national media ignored the arson of asian run business during the LA riots, the media wants to laugh at the dry cleaners story inside of looking at the underlying racial component.
I would not put this incident among what’s silly, not in the lease.
The Korean dry cleaners aren’t laughing, and neither am I.